Date: 1905
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Volume 26
Pages: 267-270

EXCERPTS FROM "VORWÄRTS" ON THE FALSIFICATION OF POPULAR REPRESENTATION.
"Vorwärts." 21 February 1905¹.
Petersburg, 17 February. (Own correspondent.)

At present everyone is awaiting the convocation of a zemsky sobor, that is, a falsification of popular representation being carried out under an archaeological guise....

....Suvorin the Elder, the well-known director of the infamous "Novoye Vremya," is now conducting, apparently on the orders of the monarchists, a grandiose press campaign in favor of a "popular" representation of archaic type, which is to be constructed on the basis of the estate principle. Rich major landowners, wealthy merchants, and conservative kulaks are to form this representation. The trump card which the government wishes to play is conservative and selfish kulak interests....

NOTE ON CHAMBERLAIN'S BOOK "AGRICULTURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY."

[End of February 1905]

Houston Stewart Chamberlain: "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century."
2 massive volumes (Munich, 1904)—evidently rubbish, which is sufficiently characterized by such a passage:

"What distinguishes More from Marx is not a progress of time, but the opposition between Germanism and Jewry (p. 836). Enough!"

He cites *passim*: Gooch. The history of English democratic ideas [in the seventeenth century]. 1898.
R. H. Sherard. The white slaves of England. 1897*.

¹ The article is cited under the heading "Die Revolution in Russland" ("The Revolution in Russia") from No. 44 of "Vorwärts" of 21 February 1905.

* Chamberlain cites the first of these books on pages 836-837, the second on page 838. —Ed.